One of the first steps you take when you are making a decision about your gardening schedule is find your USDA Zone info. The zone info helps tell us things like average date of last frost and lowest expected temperature for your area.

You can estimate when you can plant sweetscented bedstraw in Penn Yan by reviewing the USDA zone info.

Planting Calendar for Sweetscented Bedstraw

Frost tolerance for sweetscented bedstraw:	Tolerant of a very small amount of frost.
When to plant:	Up to 3 weeks before last frost.

Sweetscented Bedstraw do ok in moderate cold which tells us that you can plant them slightly earlier than other plants that might not handle the cold.

The earliest that you can plant sweetscented bedstraw in Penn Yan is March. However, you really should wait until April if you don't want to take any chances.

The last month that you can plant sweetscented bedstraw and expect a good harvest is probably August. If you wait any later than that and your sweetscented bedstraw may not have a chance to grow to maturity. You can get started a little bit earlier by starting your sweetscented bedstraw indoors.

Last Frost Date

On average the last frost is on April 15 in Penn Yan. In the coldest months of winter you can expect an average low temperature of -10°F.

It's important to remember that USDA zone info for Penn Yan is just an average and the actual date of last frost is different every year. Since half of the time in Penn Yan last frost occurs after April 15 be ready to protect your sweetscented bedstraw if you have a surprise late frost.

USDA Zone Info for Penn Yan

Here is the info for USDA Zone 6a.

Average Date of Last Frost (spring)	April 15
Average Date of First Frost (fall)	October 15
Lowest Expected Low	-10°F
Highest Expected Low	-5°F

This means that on a really cold year, the coldest it will get is -10°F. On most years you should be prepared to experience lows near -5°F.

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